DAY ..
30.December
2007 - Adrenaline
- Again on the ice to get the most out of these
days. I flew my Adrenaline 2M again and plenty
of guys on the ice. We also had some visitors
from both Årdal and Oslo.
DAY ..
29.December
2007 - Adrenaline
- Moved some snow today and had a flight with my
Adrenaline afterwards. It was snowing in the
morning but it stopped and weather was actually
quite nice with 2C temperature and only a
small breeze.
DAY ..
28.December
2007 - Adrenaline
- I was very close to buying a gasoline model
today and was standing discussing price with
Arild as he flew the model... He wanted to sell
only the model while I wanted it complete...
Guess I was lucky and he was not. He had just
had a touch and go and took of again for a few
last aerobatic manoeuvres when wings broke in
air during a snap. Interesting to see how the
wing was built up. Everything is so neat and
nice about this model and it is one of the
lightest on the market but I cant understand why
they did not use a simple sparcap atleast. I
know from my pictures there were no damage on
the wings before the last flight. Pitty
DAY ..
26.December
2007 - Adrenaline and Heli on 2,4GHz
- A couple more planes checked out on 2,4GHz.
Firt out was my Joker2 helicopter with 10 cell
lipo. I did not fly very far away as I never do
either. The Rx in the Joker is the AR7000 with a
satellite antenna on opposite side of the rx
antenna. A couple of photos of the field for the
fun of it. New homemade landing skid also
tested. This makes it possible to have the
camera straight down when that is needed. Rigid
enough and light (made it with UMS carbon) Next I tried the Adrenaline 2M
electro also on 10 lipo. here I had installed a
AR9000 with one extra satellite antenna. My son flew 5min all by
himself and I used the X9303 as main and his own
9303 as buddy. Worked well and we flew far away
on occasions. Lovely to be alone on a frequency
as one of the guys was not very certain what he
was on... A good day on the field but cold as
some wind came mid-day. Yes the light is not
super but we all cope with it and have clothes
to fit the conditions.
DAY ..
25.December
2007 -
Ice for the club
- Official first flights for the local club on
the ice this season. My club actually more in
the winter than rest of the year so we had an
official opening with champagne and lots of
flying. I flew my Pike Perfect 5 flights and the
Nemo 6-7 throws. -8C and Geir Atle needed to
preheat the school plane to get it going ;)
Both my Pike Perfect (my SSL not the SL I flew
some days ago) and the Nemo worked well on
2,4GHz. Flew pretty far away with the Perfect
(+600m) and no glitches could be detected.
DAY ..
23.December
2007 -
Nemo
- Flew a few flights with the Nemo but cold so
packed it up quickly
DAY ..
22.December
2007 -
Nemo
-16C today but I just had to take the Nemo out
for a spin. My personal wing has built in LED's.
Pretty cool that should be good flying in the
dark or late night with 4 white and red/green
bottom to keep orientation. Flew the Nemo on 2,4
and seemed to work though I did not fly far
away. The Nemo is flying on 1s lipo and the
AR6100 rx seems to work on that.
Missing this years Christmas gift from me to you? Well you can download it HERE (1,4mb .pdf)
DAY ..
20.December
2007 -
Nemo and Perfect 2,4
Finally the ice has become thick at my usual
place and the road down there is ready for
bringing the winch without too much carrying. So
I was ready to test fly one of my Pike Perfect's
with carbon fuse and 2,4GHz equipment. Launching
went well and range checking on the ground was
good. But there is a but.. The range in the air
was not good enough for high competition flying.
Dont know why. Maybe it was the flying over the
water or something else but I think there is no
other way than to get a glassfiber fuse
dedicated and made for 2,4GHz. But I had to try
as I thought it would work. The distance I could
fly was apx 5-600m in 100m altitude when I
experienced glitches. I deliberately flew with
the Tx antenna straight so I could "save" the
plane. I needed that because the signal was gone
for several seconds at a time suddenly. Before
that I had full control all the way wiggling the
wings to see when I lost control to check what I
experienced. For normal fun flying it might be
good enough but not in a competition. I will try
again and take the external receiver outside the
fuse but I am not sure I trust this right now.
To come with a conclusion of any kind I
offcourse need to fly and test more. One thing I
did test a lot after the 4 flights I had was
battery power. I use the "new" Sanyo Eneloop and
in the -10C today they seemed to hold voltage
well according to my voltage checker after 40min
use. When I lost control it was not when the
antennas were "blocked" by fuse or wing in line
of sight. It was actually flying sideways. Also
got a short flight with my Nemo with 2,4 Rx but
a Z-bend broke of so only one flight.
One thing is though sure. It was so good to have
some flights again and a short antenna like the
2,4GHz is lovely when launching yourself. it is
never in the way of anything ;) Need to fly more
very soon! Pictures today by my son Fredrik
DAY .. 11.December
2007 -
Nemo's in stock
Was going to fly today so I went to check out
the ice on "Heggefjorden" a bit north of me.
Normally we fly here before Christmas. Took my
winch with me but 40cm of snow and 1-18,5Celcius
is a bit too much even for me. The ice was
16-17cm and that is good enough but I packed up
and went to the post office instead to pick up a
package from Germany. So lovely to unwrap 20
models! Especially after waiting since WC 2006
for them.. Quality looks better than ever and
weights are good (wing 45g and fuse 15g).
Elevator and rudder are laser cut and one needs to
assemble those but on mine I will make the
depron with glass and carbon instead (as seen on
9th october).
Simple 3mm depron shaped to be nice and with 25g
glass on each side and tiny carbon rowings. I
have also ordered a lot of receivers (4ch synth),
batteries (145mah lipo) and servos to outfit
some of them ready to fly. Price will be for
Norway 1200Nkr a piece without equipment
(1325Nkr packed and shipped in Norway). Dont
know the RTF price yet.
3D view HERE
DAY .. 8.December
2007 - JR X9303 2,4GHz - Pike Perfect
Before you read this days writing you should
know that Samba sells specific 2,4GHz fuses with
glass/kevlar noses. This is the preferred
solution offcourse. But I wanted to test the
carbon fuses (WITH glass canopy).
On my way to indoor swimming pool with my son we
stopped at Klanten airport to see if it was
ready after the latest snowfall. I took out the
two Pike Perfect carbon fuses I have prepared
for 2,4GHz. These are "standard" SL carbon fuses
(not the kevlar/carbon weave Samba did before)
and I have made glassfiber canopies for them
(used in the test but not shown in pictures). I
equipped them with JR AR9000 and one remote
antenna. I tried two different setups since in
one fuse I used a large Futaba servo for
elevator. I mounted the fuses on a camera pod
and walked 40 paces in different directions with
the rangebutton pressed on the transmitter.
Afterwards I checked the glitches with the JR
glitch counter. I did several tests with bottom
of fuse towards me and level + different walking
directions. In one case I had one of the rx
antennas getting 128 lost packages (only with
solution 2 marked on the pictures) but the other
was never above 30. Mostly the remote antenna
showed 0 glitches no matter what. With the fuse
bottom towards were I was walking it sometimes
had 3-5. A lost package does not matter at all
and up to 100 is ok. Over 50 after each other
makes the Rx go in hold. But as long as I have
few or none lost packages on one of the antennas
I can call it a good enough setup I think. I did
forget myself sometimes when I turned away from
the model while walking but as long as I did not
push the range check button that did not matter.
But if I turned away at 40 steps I did get a bit
higher results.
Solution 1 is by far the best. Straight antennas
away from everything seems to be the best (one
of the wires is antenna and the other one forms
a electronic base). I did not fly since it was
-10Celcius and did not have time for it. Pitty
since the weather was wonderful!! Interesting
day anyhow and good work done. But I guess my
son was happy after 3 hours in the pool and
water slides ;)
DAY .. 7.December
2007 - JR X9303 2,4GHz
OK I could not resist but had to try this 2,4
stuff. Got myself a new 9303 in 2,4 version
dedicated for this not the module type. Have got
a good collection of receivers but are waiting
for glitch counter to check if my installation
in my Perfect SL will work.. So first out was
one of my Liemit indoor planes that I installed
the tiny 6 channel JR AR6100 in (3g). Foggy outside so
I could not fly too far away. Had a glitch but
that was after the battery was empty. Feels just
as flying with my regular 35MHz radio though the
antenna is a bit shorter ;) Cant really feel any
difference at all and that is good!
